a scar can be a badge of survival

Today is the one year anniversary of the biggest storm I have seen in my lifetime (hopefully the biggest I will ever see), and I am so emotional. The things I saw around the area I now call home were (and some still are) catastrophic. We were lucky enough to purchase a home on a hill and only lost two pine trees in our front yard. I don't even know what we would have done if the home we bought just three months before it hit, filled with water and we lost all of our things. I was emotional directly after it hit, then did my best to help others who were more affected, but the real, true sadness went away...that is until today. I keep wondering why I feel this way - I am semi-rested, it isn't my time of the month, I am just sad. I guess all I can do is continue to help, celebrate Halloween (which was cancelled last year), and take part in a Light the Shore vigil tonight, where crowds will gather along the east coast and shine flashlights over the ocean, to show mother nature that we survived. I also just read a great article about water lines (aka scars, hence the title of this post) and I feel is worth sharing. Click here to read it.